{"id":35863,"date":"2021-08-25T11:40:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T02:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/concerns-for-new-zealand-pasifika-community-over-auckland-church-covid-cluster"},"modified":"2021-08-25T11:40:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T02:40:45","slug":"new-zealand-health-chief-slams-gutless-racism-against-pasifika-people-over-covid-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35863","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand health chief slams \u2018gutless\u2019 racism against Pasifika people over Covid cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Bloomfield urges everyone to be kind amid rise in online abuse after outbreak at Auckland church service that took place before lockdown<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s director general of health has condemned \u201cgutless\u201d racism against Pacific communities, as the Covid-19 outbreak continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing case numbers on Wednesday, Dr Ashley Bloomfield said the ministry of health had seen racism being directed at Pacific New Zealanders, and that those racist remarks were \u201cdisappointing \u2013 and frankly, gutless\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/concerns-for-new-zealand-pasifika-community-over-auckland-church-covid-cluster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Bloomfield urges everyone to be kind amid rise in online abuse after outbreak at Auckland church service that took place before lockdownSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s director general of health has condemned \u201cgutless\u201d racism again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,503,56,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-indigenous-peoples","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35864,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35863\/revisions\/35864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}